JacquelineM

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Irish Breakfast Tea - Special Reserve from Golden Moon Tea

JacquelineM drank Irish Breakfast Tea - Special Reserve by Golden Moon Tea

I needed something to pick me up after clearing the raised beds in the garden and planting onions and peas, and before tackling the dreaded shirt ironing. This seemed like a great candidate! Definitely strong, but so honeyed and delicious. Utterly classic. I love it for the afternoon when you have a ton to do and don’t want to get all sugary and dreamy with a flavored afternoon tea, and you don’t have time for a multiple steep tea.

2010-04-10 14:58:45 -0400

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Lori 2010-04-10 20:18:43 -0400

I like the comment about a mutiple steep tea—I always feel guilty if I don’t use a multiple steep tea more than once….

gmathis 2010-04-10 21:48:11 -0400

Sorry about the shirt ironing. (I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I like to iron…unwrinkling things soothes me.)

JacquelineM 2010-04-11 09:41:00 -0400

Lori – me too! It is the thing that keeps me from trying my Samovar Four Seasons! I know it can go up to something like 15 steeps and I just haven’t been in one place for that long of a time!!! LOL

gmathis – my grandmother LOVED ironing and my uncle would bring over his lab coats for her to iron because not even the cleaners did them as well as her. I sadly did not get the ironing gene – sometimes I think the clothes looked better before I took the iron to them! But I have gotten better. I need the skill for sewing (half the battle of sewing is ironing I find!!!) so I keep at it!

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I love to cook, bake, read, paint, knit, do needlework, and garden. I need my coffee, but I LOVE my tea. I work at an Art School, and I am currently taking classes in order to become certified to teach.

I enjoy writing tasting notes, but have decided not to numerically rate teas as of 9/14/10. For an explanation, see my looooong tasting note about Mountain Malt from the Simple Leaf.

My favorites:
Chinese black teas
A good “milk and sugar” English style black
Earl Grey (classic, and in all variations!)
Vanilla teas (classic, and in all variations!)
Jasmine, Rose, Violet and other froofy, flowery teas!
An Occasional Oolong
Flavored Rooibos
Herbal Tisanes